Visiting the DLI Museum Durham

I also visited the DLi museum during on May 24 2012 and their was 3 different exhibitions:

1. 'The Yompers' - a fighting Royal Marine's perspective of the Falklands War. By Ian Gardiner
2. "Remembering War Horses" it was about the 2nd world war
3. "Love me" by Zed Nelson, who took pictures of people doing plastic surgery, to change their appearance

The love me exhibition had an impact on me because Nelson showed the vanity of plastic surgery and how important the outward physical appearance is for some people. Nelson's powerful images shows some people almost as victims of cultural brainwashing. Across the world people are led by media and society to want to look younger, thinner, have bigger breasts or smaller noses. Or want what they haven't got. Crazy and they will spend any amount of money to achieve this, their values are all wrong.

Visit to the Oriental Museum Durham University

I visited this museum on May 30th 2012, when the Manga exhibition was on where some of the students I knew from our sixth form got involved and the notes I made at the time, I'm just putting them on the blog now.

For information the term Manga is mainly used in English speaking countries to describe comics of Japanese origin. If the Manga comic is successful enough, someone may make and animation or a film of it, another word sometimes is used to describe any animated film is Anime

I've uploaded some of the images I took while I was there to prove it but they're in a different page

Saul Bass

http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/saul_bass_oscar-winning_animated_short_reveals_iwhy_man_createsi.html

Gender stereotypes

Magazine - Rolling Stone 
Calvin Klein Jeans Ad
Inappropriate images, one male is on the floor wearing jeans and an opened shirt while two other males and a female are on a couch, all shirtless, while one male is sitting down making out with the female while the lays on top of the other male and holds his head.
Gender stereotypes

 

During Roman times

Rome was very much a male dominated society; so much so that in the Roman
Republic a man could legally kill his wife or daughter if they questioned his authority.

Women were also kept out of positions of power.

When Rome converted to Christianity women hoped that Jesus Christ's views
on equality would lead to changes in men's attitudes towards women. This didn’t
happen exactly as many women hoped but development of Christianity shows
women have played important roles in respect of mother hood or as nuns for
example who are devoted to a religious order.

This has influenced society across the world.

While Catholic women cannot become priests, prominent women in the life of the
church have included everything from Old Testament figures, to the Virgin Mary and
female disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, and to theologians, abbesses,
monarchs, missionaries, mystics, martyrs, nurses, teachers and religious sisters.

A special role and devotion is accorded to Jesus' mother, Mary and Marian
devotion has been a central theme of Catholic art. Motherhood and family are given
a sacred status in church teachings.

There have been many female Catholic saints and many devotions started by
women. Women have played an important role in Catholicism through convents
and abbeys, particularly in the establishment of schools, hospitals, nursing homes
and monastic settlements, through religious orders of nuns or sisters like the
Benedictines, Dominicans, Loreto Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, Little Sisters of the
Poor, Josephites, and Missionaries of Charity.

Famous Catholic women include Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, and anti-
death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean.

The Church has influenced the status of women in various ways by
condemning infanticide, divorce, incest, polygamy and counting the marital
infidelity of men as equally sinful to that of women. The Church holds abortion and
contraception to be sinful although this view is much more relaxed today

Male and female stereotypes

Michelangelo was born in the 14th century and was an apprentice painter in the
household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the leading patron of the arts in Florence.

His first works were sculpture in the early years. His 'Pietà' which means Pity
made his name and showed the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after
the Crucifixion. Not only is it lifelike buts the detail is beautiful

Another famous work is Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
in the Vatican (1508-1512). It was recognized at once as a great work of art and from
then on Michelangelo was regarded as Italy's greatest living artist.

The new pope, Leo X, then commissioned Michelangelo to rebuild the façade of the
church of San Lorenzo in Florence. The scheme was eventually abandoned, but it
marks the beginning of Michelangelo's activity as an architect. Michelangelo also
designed monuments to Giuliani and Lorenzo de' Medici in the Medici Chapel in San
Lorenzo.

In 1534, Michelangelo returned to Rome where he was commissioned to paint 'The
Last Judgement' on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (1537-1541). From 1546 he
was increasingly active as an architect, in particular on the great church of St Peter's.